The G-Drive has been in use since 2018, requiring government officials to store all work documents in the cloud instead of on personal computers

However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained

I'm equal parts exasperated and unsurprised because "automatic backups" were 100% part of the sales pitch to move everything to the cloud

This is actually kinda crazy. It just goes to show how a lot of infrastructure we take for granted is a lot more fragile than one would believe. Kinda concerning. At least this isn't technically critical infrastructure, I guess?